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Description
Predicted soon after the discovery of the $Z$ boson, coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering (C$\nu A_{el}$) is a Standard Model (SM) process in elementary particle physics. The observation of C$\nu A_{el}$ is pivotal in advacing our understanding of the SM and exploring potential physics beyond it [1, 2]. The goal of the TEXONO experiment is to observe C$\nu A_{el}$ of reactor electron antineutrinos interacting with Germanium nuclei in the fully coherent regime. The TEXONO experiment, to study SM and beyond SM aspects of C$\nu A_{el}$, employs state-of-the-art point-contact high-purity Germanium detectors with a threshold of $\mathcal{O}$(100 eV) at the Kuo-Sheng nuclear power plant [3]. This presentation will outline our research activities and highlight the most recent advances in exploring SM and BSM physics with C$\nu A_{el}$.
References
[1] S. Kerman et al. In: Phys. Rev. D 93 (11 2016), p. 113006.
[2] V. Sharma et al. In: Phys. Rev. D 103 (9 2021), p. 092002.
[3] A.K. Soma et al. In: Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A. 836 (2016), pp. 67–82.
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